Rock Keyboard Timing Tips

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In this clip we're going to be talking about playing in a group and specifically the timing that's involved in playing with a group. When you're playing alone, and you're playing solo keyboard, you know, you don't have to worry about what everybody else is playing. You can be playing in four four time and you can add a fifth bar into there, a fifth beat into there and it's not going to mess anybody else up but yourself, you know. But there are times when you're playing in a band and you mess up a part and that makes everybody else mess up and it looks like everybody does but you know, you're the one that's kind of to blame for it so it just, you know, the key to making a band all work as one unit is everyone listening to each other like we talked about before. Specifically, the timing is very important and getting that internal clock out of your head and listening to other people is of ultimate importance and you know, to make sure that a band plays together. So let's look at the rift, that little part that we were playing before and talk about how we might change that based on what the other musicians are doing. Before we start off with the bass line like this..... and the top part might be like..... so if you think about let's take that bass part out, let's take the left hand out because like we said before the bass player is already doing..... So we don't need to do that so we're left with..... The way to play that, the way to listen to know what's the rhythm that you're going to do that is to listen to the drummer so let's, let me bang on my keyboard here and simulate the drums so let's say the drums are going...... So you might do..... So I didn't do the exact rhythm but you get the idea. The drums dictate what's going on. Listen to the snare, listen to the kick drum, match up what you're doing with them, you know, and especially when they're doing the rhythm part, when they're just playing the groove, match up with that and it's even better if, you know, say the drummer does like a fill somewhere and he uses a specific rhythm that he uses all the time on that so if his rhythm is...... Then he goes...... Then to hit that, on that fill, so if you're doing like...... and everybody hits that together, the timing is going to be right, the rhythm is going to be right and it's just going to make it seem more like one unit that's just, not, you know, four musicians playing together but one unit playing together and that's going to make it sound pretty nice.

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